Nvidia 8800 GTX bug-busters bust bugs

NVIDIA flew a bunch of engineers all over the world to quickly fix the faulty value resistor on its 8800 GTX cards. It is a small flaw in the reference design. The story is that someone added a weaker resistor and I am sure that Jensen already spanked his/her but for it.

All Nvidia and its channel partners needed to do is to change the resistor with a stronger one, and that is what they are doing now. All the cards in retail should be bug free, at least Nvidia is doing its best to recall all the cards out, fix the issue and send them back to the stores.

So far, representatives from Point of View, EVGA and Gainward confirmed that their cards are bug free. They managed to fix the problem in house or Nvidia did it for them, either way all the 8800 GTX with their logos are fine.

The first batch of fixed cards went out today and some stores will have them tomorrow for the European launch. Most other Nvidia partners will have the bug-free cards by tomorrow but, for some, it's a race against time. µ

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